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...more imaginatively than I could over hope to, but basically, let's face it, he's right! All us guys were pretty perturbed when we goofed and scored on that freak round out (this happened at 5:45 of the second set). Gee," he murmured, "did old Manila Folder chew...
...reapportionment is crude. North Carolina Democrats, obliged to cut twelve districts to eleven, worked a dachshund-shaped gerrymander (a system of redistricting named after Elbridge Gerry, who, as Governor of Massachusetts in 1812, designed a legislative district in the shape of a salamander) in the Piedmont area designed to chew up lone Republican Charles Jonas...
...girl babbles cheerfully of her experience with market research: "So I was standing on the corner waiting for somebody to cross me because I'm not allowed to cross by myself. And this lady comes by, and she says, 'Here is a bubble gum sample. Do you chew this brand?'" A clever jape at advertisers becomes a brief bit of high comedy as the listener realizes that what the moppet is describing is a human being going mad from the shame of having to ask little girls questions about bubble...
Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell. More resourceful than most current fictional heroes, Mijbil the Otter could turn on a water tap, unzip a zipper and chew razor blades. As a pet, he was hilarious and heartwarming, and so is the book Author Maxwell has fashioned about...
...York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad is a Kafkaesque character who rides out his days of penance on a train. His pendulous life is governed by back-room fortunetellers who write and rewrite the timetables. His journey is shepherded by faceless men in visored hats who carry metal beetles that chew up tickets and disgorge the microscopic confetti on the vests of the witless passengers. He knows not what his sins are; he just lives in the dim suspicion that at some Last Stop the Great Dispatcher will explain everything. But he never gets there; imprisoned aboard the mysterious rattler...